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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Chapter 2: What incident sparked tensions in Minneapolis?
Tensions are high in Minneapolis today, a day after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good as she sat in her car. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defends the agent's actions, saying Good was trying to run him over, but video appears to show she was driving away from him when he opened fire. Vice President Vance says the unnamed agent is protected.
The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue.
Chapter 3: How is the Trump administration responding to the investigation into Renee Good's death?
That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job.
This as officials in Minnesota slam the Trump administration, saying federal officials are blocking them from participating in the investigation into Good's death. The White House says federal troops will remain in Minnesota. Five Senate Republicans joined Democrats today in advancing a resolution that would stop President Trump from unilaterally ordering new military action against Venezuela.
NPS Claudia Grisales reports. It's the largest GOP rebuke yet of Trump's growing U.S. Armed Forces intervention in the South American country.
The successful bipartisan effort now sets up a series of votes next week and hours of debate in a bid for final passage. Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who co-led the Venezuela War Powers Resolution, said those next steps are likely coming as a surprise for Republicans.
I don't think my colleagues on the other side thought it was going to pass, so I'm not sure that they really thought that through.
Soon after the vote, President Trump lashed out at the five Republicans who broke ranks. GOP Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Todd Young of Ohio joined Democrats to rebuke new military action in Venezuela without congressional input. Claudia Rosales, NPR News, the Capitol.
Before leaving office, President Biden made big gains slowing the smuggling of deadly street fentanyl into the U.S. That's the conclusion of a new study published today in the journal Science. NPR's Brian Mann reports.
Researchers say the supply of fentanyl reaching U.S. communities dried up the last two years Biden was in office, while its potency also fell. Keith Humphries at Stanford University is a co-lead author.
You're looking at about a 50 percent decline in the purity of fentanyl that was being seized.
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Chapter 4: What bipartisan efforts are being made regarding military action in Venezuela?
The Dow is up 247 points. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.